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Upper Hammonds Plains family recognized for tireless volunteer efforts
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HALIFAX- Shirley Jones and her three daughters, Gina, Melvina and Sherlene have been called the “backbone” of their community in Upper Hammonds Plains. Tuesday, the Jones family was honoured with the 'Volunteer Family of the Year Award,' thanking ...

Relay For Life of Charles County start includes chili recipes, vendors
So Md News
7 at Marlboro Volunteer Fire Department, 14815 Pratt St., Upper Marlboro. Tickets ... The group wanted to invite people from the Relay community as well as those who aren't involved in the annual event to raise funds for cancer research, but who might ...

New York Daily News (blog)
Wake-Up Call: Rest in peace, Mario Cuomo
New York Daily News (blog)
“At his core, at his best, he was a philosopher,” Cuomo told more than 1,000 mourners who packed St. Ignatius Loyola Church on the Upper East Side. Our Bill Hammond: "For all the ink spilled by some of the country's best political writers over the past ...

New York Daily News (blog)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
New York Daily News (blog)
“At his core, at his best, he was a philosopher,” Cuomo told more than 1,000 mourners who packed St. Ignatius Loyola Church on the Upper East Side. Our Bill Hammond: "For all the ink spilled by some of the country's best political writers over the past ...

Two Halifax-area fire stations closed Boxing Day
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Station 4 on Duffus Street in Halifax was closed until 6 p.m. Friday while Station 11 on Patton Road in Upper Sackville was closed for 24 hours. Signs on the doors at both stations advised people to call 911 if there was an emergency. Station 4 was ...

Firefighters union says station closures will put seniors apartments at risk
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The Halifax regional fire service wants to close stations on Lady Hammond Road in Halifax, Patton Road in Upper Sackville and King Street in Dartmouth. Chief Doug Trussler has said that closing the stations and moving those resources elsewhere will ...

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Help build our 2014 map and go holiday 'light-seeing'
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With the help of our readers, Facebook followers and fellow tweeters, we're creating our annual map of some of the best light displays in Nova Scotia! They can be big and bright, or just something a little bit special that makes you smile. Use this as ...

Help build our map and go holiday 'light-seeing'
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With the help of our readers, Facebook followers and fellow tweeters, we're creating our annual map of some of the best light displays in Nova Scotia! They can be big and bright, or just something a little bit special that makes you smile. Use this as ...

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Three stations set for closure in Halifax Fire review
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Station 4 on Lady Hammond Road in Halifax, Station 11 on Patton Road in Upper Sackville and Station 13 on King Street in Dartmouth could all be shut down if regional council moves forward with the recommendation. Top brass of Halifax Regional Fire ...

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Stations slated for closure, relocation in Halifax Fire review
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Station 4 on Lady Hammond Road in Halifax, Station 11 on Patton Road in Upper Sackville and Station 13 on King Street in Dartmouth could all be shut down if regional council moves forward with the recommendation. Top brass of Halifax Regional Fire ...

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Halifax fire stations recommended for closure in new report
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The overhaul, which is contained a report, recommends three fire stations in the city's urban core be closed: the Lady Hammond station on Duffus Street in north-end Halifax, the Patton Road station in Lower Sackville and the King Street station in ...
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Halifax fire chief, union at odds over need to close stationsMetroNews

Harvard Magazine
Preserving Heirs and Airs
Harvard Magazine
Three generations of the prominent Gibson family lived there, the last of whom was Charles Hammond Gibson Jr. A patrician bon vivant, he ensured the house would be preserved “as is,” in all its Victorian opulence, and become the Gibson House Museum ...

Man investigated for hoax after claiming he was robbed
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Reports that a 19-year-old man was robbed at knifepoint on Larry Uteck Drive Saturday night turned out to be a hoax. Halifax police said a Sackville area man who claimed that he was robbed of a sum of money after being threatened by two men with a ...

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Nova Scotia still wringing out after downpour
CBC.ca
The detour on the Bedford Highway has been lifted, according to Halifax Transit, but the Hammonds Plains Road and Bluewater Road are not expected to reopen until Friday at the earliest. ... Road, Clearland; Mullock Road, between civic numbers 569 and ...

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$25000 talking Christmas tree good for Lower Sackville, Coun. Brad Johns says
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Call it Woody 2.0. A new version of the large talking Christmas tree that once filled the Mic Mac Mall every holiday season has been created. Coun. Brad Johns (Middle-Upper Sackville, Beaver Bank, Lucasville) has shelled out $25,000 from his ...

Sackville man seriously injured after road-rage incident leads to fight in ...
Hants Journal
The drivers then confronted each other in the parking lot of the Upper Tantallon Sobeys grocery store at 3650 Hammonds Plains Rd. around 3:30 p.m. Dec. 4. The two men began fighting, with the 29-year-old suffering serious injuries. He was taken to ...

CTV News
Man arrested, another injured after alleged road rage incident near Halifax
CTV News
One man is in hospital and another is set to appear in court after an apparent case of road rage near Halifax Thursday afternoon. The RCMP say two drivers confronted each other in the parking lot of a grocery store at 3650 Hammonds Plains Rd. in Upper ...
Tantallon road rage case leaves one man seriously hurtCBC.ca
Sackville man seriously injured after road-rage incident leads to fight in ...Hants

Tantallon road rage case leaves one man seriously hurt
CBC.ca
Police say a 29-year-old man from Lower Sackville has serious injuries after a case of road rage on the Hammonds Plains Road in Upper Tantallon Thursday afternoon. RCMP say two drivers got into a fight in the Sobeys parking lot after tailgating on the ...

Risking their lives to save yours
WVNS
Air Evac started in West Plains Missouri after a man in a car crash died in the community because they couldn't get him to a trauma center in time. Rural victims are twice as likely to die from an accident or medical condition versus an urban victim ...

Edmonton Journal
Concert preview: Shakey Graves time travels back to Edmonton
Edmonton Journal
He's also hoping to put out another batch of tunes, written on a mid-'70s Hammond organ, one of the first things he bought for his home's recent transformation. “I love those old organs. They're really, really hokey and crazy. They attempt to make ...

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Multiple accidents reported during slippery morning commute in Halifax
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A Jeep rolled over on Hammonds Plains Road near Innovation Drive. The two occupants weren't hurt, ... The three were Route 14, from Leiblin Park to downtown; Route 20, from Herring Cove to Upper Water Street; and Route 32, from Cowie Hill to downtown.

President Martin responds to DCCC vote against possible FHSU merger
FHSU University Leader
“The private college, St. Mary of the Plains College, closed in the '90s and that left not just Dodge City, but southwest Kansas without a four-year regents school,” Steward said. “So, Dr. Hammond was ... The FHSU-DCCC merger would have created a 4 ...

Arctic chill settles across Upper Midwest, Rockies
Monroe Evening News
A upper level disturbance will push out of the Plains tonight and through the central Great Lakes on Thursday. This energy will bring ... We get this arctic blast, and it just opens the floodgates," said John Hammond Jr., a department head. "We're ...

Houston Chronicle
Arctic chill settles across Upper Midwest, Rockies
Houston Chronicle
Snow falls on South Third St. in downtown Marquette, Mich., Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. Michigan's Upper Peninsula was buried under more than 14 inches of snow — with at least another foot expected before the storm moves out Wednesday. The weather ...

Beaumont Enterprise
Arctic chill settles across Upper Midwest, Rockies
Beaumont Enterprise
Snow falls on South Third St. in downtown Marquette, Mich., Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. Michigan's Upper Peninsula was buried under more than 14 inches of snow — with at least another foot expected before the storm moves out Wednesday. The weather ...

Lynchburg News and Advance
Snow buries parts of Rockies, Upper Midwest
Lynchburg News and Advance
We get this arctic blast, and it just opens the floodgates," said John Hammond Jr., a department head. "We're behind right now as we're sitting here talking." In Denver, temperatures in the teens prompted officials to move a Veteran's Day ceremony indoors.

The State
Arctic blast descends on much of the country
The State
A man holds his dog as he rushes across the street in downtown St. Paul, Minn., during the first snowstorm of the season on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. Though the snow will largely stop in Minnesota by Tuesday afternoon, said Joe Calderone, senior ...

Yahoo News
Rockies, Upper Midwest get blast of wintry weather
Yahoo News
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A blast of wintry weather blew into parts of the Rockies and Upper Midwest on Monday, bringing a foot of snow in some areas, along with plunging temperatures. The cold weather is expected to eventually blanket the central U.S. from ...
Arctic chill settles across Upper Midwest, RockiesHouston Chronicle

Hammonds Plains woman accused of trying to kill spouse
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A Hammonds Plains woman stands accused of trying to kill her husband after a stabbing at their home Tuesday night. Virginia Louise Howard, 48, faces charges of attempted murder and possession of a weapon (a knife) for a dangerous purpose. The victim is ...

Woman charged with attempted murder after man stabbed in Hammonds Plains ...
Truro Daily News
HAMMONDS PLAINS - The RCMP in Halifax have charged a 48-year-old woman with attempted murder after a man was stabbed in a Hammonds Plains home that police say the two were sharing.

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Rural firefighter cuts in Halifax region spark more worry
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Trussler's email was in response to questions from Matt Whitman, the councillor for Hammonds Plains-St. Margarets, and several residents of Black Point on St. Margarets Bay. ... “Upper Boutiliers Point and the head of the bay, they'll save something.

Another Sunny And Warm Tuesday
WDSU New Orleans
The ice man cometh. And does so early this year, after a former Pacific typhoon flew up toward the Arctic and rammed the jet stream. The stream has whipped south, dragging down frigid air from Canada over the northern Plains and Mountain States and t.

Suspected Serial Killer Leads Police to Six Bodies in Indiana
NBCNews.com
Temperatures will dip below zero in areas of the northern Rockies, High Plains and Upper Midwest, according to The Weather Channel. Wind gusts in those areas could reach 50 mph, according to the NWS, which warned of whiteout conditions due to ...

Fond du Lac Reporter
Area communities of faith announce upcoming events
Fond du Lac Reporter
This “Christmas Starry Log Cabin” quilt will be part of a quilt raffle at the Shepherd of the Hills Parish Oct. 26 fall chicken dinner. This is the 11th quilt that parishioner Nancy Hubbell has donated for the annual event. The holly leaves and ...

Recipients of 2014 Government of Canada History Awards Announced
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today announced the recipients of the 2014 Government of Canada History Awards with students of St. Mary's Academy. Minister Glover also announced the two national ...

Dover Beats Q3 Earnings on Strong Revenue and Bookings - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
Dover slashed its full-year 2014 earnings guidance to the new range of $4.75-$4.80 per share from $4.75-$4.85 per share, a reduction of 5 cents to the upper end, mainly due to the impact of recent acquisitions. The company reaffirmed organic revenue ...

Marshfield News-Herald
Exchange student returns to Marshfield after 50 years
Marshfield News-Herald
Diane Baltus of Wausau holds up a photo she took on her iPad of Ollie Gomez of Cochabamba, Bolivia, right, greeting his host parent Gerald Praschak of Wausau, left, at the Central Wisconsin Airport. Baltus reconnected with Gomez to help bring him back ...

Crown seeks publication ban in Glen Assoun murder appeal
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A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge will decide this month whether to OK an application for a publication ban regarding federal Justice Department documents in an appeal for the release of a man convicted of killing his former girlfriend. An 82-page ...

Green Bay Press Gazette
Scholarships helping women achieve success
Green Bay Press Gazette
Founded in 1985, Management Women is a local professional organization for mid- to upper-level women in management. Its mission is “Promoting professional growth and development of women by women.” Our organization currently has 160 members ...

Judge lifts ban on name of abusive Eastern Passage father
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A judge has lifted an interim publication ban on the identity of an Eastern Passage father awaiting sentencing for assaulting his two children. Robin Lyndon Olsen, 36, requested a publication ban Sept. 30 but later decided not to give formal ...

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Halifax police look for help in solving Matthew Sudds homicide
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It has been one year since the body of homicide victim Matthew Sudds was found in a ditch and Halifax police marked the occasion by asking for help to solve the case. Police believe Sudds, 24, had been dead several days before a female passerby found ...

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | OCT. 14, 2014
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Construction, heritage clash. Re: the Sept. 24 letter “Learn from Glasgow” on heritage preservation, we have our problems here in Nova Scotia with regard to construction and heritage buildings, however the mindset is not to “tear it down because it's old.

Herald Times Reporter
Today in History
Herald Times Reporter
1586: Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I. Mary was beheaded in February 1587. 1912: Former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the White House as the Progressive (”Bull ...